The World to Come

Ali Viterbi is a playwright, television writer, and educator. Her play In Every Generation received its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater in 2022 and its west coast premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in 2023. Her work has been developed and/or commissioned by Geffen Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Round House Theatre, National New Play Network, San Diego REP, Carthage College, HERE Arts Center, and The Barrow Group, among others. Ali won the 2019 National Jewish Playwriting Contest and has developed projects in TV with AMC, Anonymous Content, and Viacom/CBS. She is a recipient of a Macdowell Residency and was a member of the Geffen Playhouse Writers’ Room. Ali received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. in Playwriting from UC San Diego.

Howard Shalwitz co-founded Woolly Mammoth in 1980, and over 38 seasons built it from a tiny alternative theatre into one of the nation’s most influential producers of provocative new plays. He has directed and performed at Woolly and at theatres in New York and across the country, receiving multiple Helen Hayes nominations and awards as both an actor and director. In 2014 Howard won the prestigious Margo Jones Award for his lifetime commitment to new American plays. Since 2018, he has served as Associate Director of the Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) where he leads LINKAGES:Poland, a multi-year project to build a new generation of connections between theatre leaders in the US and Poland. He is also teaching at Theater J and working on a book about the language of theatre.